If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
Only peace between equals can last.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.